Category: City of Memphis
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The Rent is Too Damn High (SCS Edition)
Memphis City Councilman Phillip Spinosa has a plan to charge the local school district rent for buildings owned by the city. That plan could further imperil a district that’s already struggling to pay the bills and cause real problems for the City in the long run.
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Redlining Memphis
Last week, NPR aired a report about the way one Mid-South Bank has been using discriminatory lending practices against African American borrowers. The finding against Bancorp South by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was published on June 29th of this year. The fact that this news slipped by is unsettling. The only local news…
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On #RecallKemp
Last week the Commercial Appeal reported on an effort to recall City Council Chairman, Kemp Conrad. The announcement of the petition, which can be found here, lists some of the dismissive things Chairman Conrad has said about activists seeking to protect the Greensward in Overton Park. As a general statement, I’m supportive o citizen led…
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Gibbons Returns Triumphant
Bill Gibbons, the former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and a former Shelby County District Attorney General has returned to Memphis to take on crime once again. Gibbons will join the Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis to lend his experience as a DA to the study of…
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The Scattershot Effect
Last night’s passage of HB779 by the Tennessee House brought to light some features of the bill that I was previously unaware of, and some problems that will most certainly result if the bill is passed. Here’s Rep. Carter speaking on two features of the bill that haven’t gotten a lot of play in the…